Woken up by the coldness again due to our thin single duvet, at 6.30am. Get the heater on and warm up the van before we get out of bed.
Lou is assigned to toilet tank emptying duties whilst Ieuan makes pleasant chit chat with another holidaymaker – a farmer from Victoria who hasn’t had enough rain to run the farm for the last 3 years so has sold up and is doing some travelling with his wife. He also comments that you “wouldn’t get an aussie bird doing toilet duties” – a sentiment which Lou agrees wholeheartedly with, he then proceeds to tell us that even little women like Lou drive monster dumper trucks in the mines of Western Australia.
Head off to the big K-Mart and Coles to buy food and a duvet (as well as various other campervan paraphernalia Lou buys to make the van more comfortable!).
We go to the whale viewing platform at Logans beach but no whales are in residence and the wind is pretty strong so we move on, leaving Warrnambool, passing Cheese World and on to the Great Ocean Road.
We stop at the Bay of Islands for some spectacular views, plus a few other lookout points including London Bridge, which used to be attached to the mainland, until the connecting arch crumbled away one day, leaving some tourists stranded on the main section of rock surrounded by sea! They were winched to safety by helicopter.
Saw the 12 Apostles again before stopping at Apollo Bay for lunch, although our favourite deli had just closed. Carried on to Torquay to spend the night, arriving at the Torquay Holiday resort around 7pm. Put some laundry on and used the (frustrating) internet, which was an awful all-in-one arrangement of monitor, keyboard, and seat all fixed together, with a red ball in one corner as the roller mouse and the right click mouse button separately on the keyboard!
Went for a walk past surf alley – every surf shop you could ever want, went to look at the local Thai takeaway, giving the owner a fright as he didn’t see us come in and then had a drink at a cold café nearby.
Back at the van, Lou made tea – stir fry chicken with spring onions and cashew nuts (although we had forgotten to buy stock cubes!), whilst Ieuan opened the sangria (well almost – Ieuan didn’t realise it was “frizzante” when he bought it!).
Lou is assigned to toilet tank emptying duties whilst Ieuan makes pleasant chit chat with another holidaymaker – a farmer from Victoria who hasn’t had enough rain to run the farm for the last 3 years so has sold up and is doing some travelling with his wife. He also comments that you “wouldn’t get an aussie bird doing toilet duties” – a sentiment which Lou agrees wholeheartedly with, he then proceeds to tell us that even little women like Lou drive monster dumper trucks in the mines of Western Australia.
Head off to the big K-Mart and Coles to buy food and a duvet (as well as various other campervan paraphernalia Lou buys to make the van more comfortable!).
We go to the whale viewing platform at Logans beach but no whales are in residence and the wind is pretty strong so we move on, leaving Warrnambool, passing Cheese World and on to the Great Ocean Road.
We stop at the Bay of Islands for some spectacular views, plus a few other lookout points including London Bridge, which used to be attached to the mainland, until the connecting arch crumbled away one day, leaving some tourists stranded on the main section of rock surrounded by sea! They were winched to safety by helicopter.
Saw the 12 Apostles again before stopping at Apollo Bay for lunch, although our favourite deli had just closed. Carried on to Torquay to spend the night, arriving at the Torquay Holiday resort around 7pm. Put some laundry on and used the (frustrating) internet, which was an awful all-in-one arrangement of monitor, keyboard, and seat all fixed together, with a red ball in one corner as the roller mouse and the right click mouse button separately on the keyboard!
Went for a walk past surf alley – every surf shop you could ever want, went to look at the local Thai takeaway, giving the owner a fright as he didn’t see us come in and then had a drink at a cold café nearby.
Back at the van, Lou made tea – stir fry chicken with spring onions and cashew nuts (although we had forgotten to buy stock cubes!), whilst Ieuan opened the sangria (well almost – Ieuan didn’t realise it was “frizzante” when he bought it!).
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